I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)
John RuskinLet every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John RuskinAll that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
John RuskinChristian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.
John Ruskin